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There has been a nauseating amount of discussion about physician burnout lately. An equal number of remedies, from mindfulness to exercise, to inpatient psychiatric treatment for doctors experiencing unmanageable stress and burnout. And then I read this report of a survey from the world-famous Cleveland Clinic, which describes 35% of nearly 1100 physicians employed by The Cleveland Clinic have signs of overt burnout. More importantly, those physicians who cared more about their patients had higher rates of burnout! Similarly, burnout was greater among full time employed physicians. Of course, a so-called expert suggests that the solution should be to make these really good doctors do less doctoring and involve less-skilled and less-educated people take over those duties. But nobody … Continue Reading